Jungle Queen
Gottlieb, 1977Hey everyone,
I need help with where these wires attach on my jungle queen.
They seem to go to one of the coils of the bonus unit, but don't want to guess. Haha. I have the schematics for the game but it doesn't appear to show me the wiring of the steppers. Just the relays.
Thanks!
The contact rivets on the stepper will be represented on the schematic by a rectangle with large black dots. Look at the color of the wire attached to the broken wire lug, and then match up the color of the wire to the schematic wire diagram. Each segment of the circuit on the schematic will indicate the wire color... Looking at your photos, that one wire (yellow/black or white/black or yellow/green???) might be a ground wire that attached to the solenoid bracket of the bonus unit. Check the schematic to confirm...
Quoted from chuckwurt:If so, can't I just attach it to something else that's grounded?
That tab on the end of those bundled wires, in a Gottlieb game is usually a grounding tab. Take that loose wire and move it around to see if it gets close to a screw in a mounting point for the Unit. One screw should have the remaining part of that tab under it. Looking at your third photo it might go onto that mounting screw by that blue coil. The base beside that 1 screw looks clean and shiny, and with less oxidation. (Maybe).
Quoted from Darcy:That tab on the end of those bundled wires, in a Gottlieb game is usually a grounding tab. Take that loose wire and move it around to see if it gets close to a screw in a mounting point for the Unit. One screw should have the remaining part of that tab under it. Looking at your third photo it might go onto that mounting screw by that blue coil. The base beside that 1 screw looks clean and shiny, and with less oxidation. (Maybe).
Good call. These wires are definitely soldered to a tab that has broken off. I'll look. I'm also gonna test it wirh the game on too make sure it's not powered.
This wire has 6v running to it so it's definitely why I'm not getting any bonus lights. Just not sure where it's supposed to attach. I thought maybe it broke off the Bakelite wheel with the bonus rivets on it, but doesn't seem to be there.
Touch it onto the frame or a coil stop on the bonus unit. When you see bonus lights lit, you will have confirmed it attaches to the frame of the bonus unit. Similar to the frame of the player unit in the head. When that wire breaks away from the player unit you get no ball in play Lights.
okay I guess I was afraid to try that since it has power running to it. Didnt want to blow anything. But I guess it would just blow a fuse worst case.
Quoted from Darcy:That tab on the end of those bundled wires, in a Gottlieb game is usually a grounding tab. Take that loose wire and move it around to see if it gets close to a screw in a mounting point for the Unit. One screw should have the remaining part of that tab under it. Looking at your third photo it might go onto that mounting screw by that blue coil. The base beside that 1 screw looks clean and shiny, and with less oxidation. (Maybe).
I agree. The allen bolts for the solenoid frame probably have lock washers under them. Most of them will have dedicated lock washers, but the one circled may instead be the other half of that broken solder tab, which will have lock washer style teeth inside the ring to provide the lock washer function.
/Mark
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